04/10/2026
Football is not about friendship circles, it’s about the badge on your chest. If you only pass to your friends, you are not playing football — you are playing backyard games.
Real players adapt, mix, and lift the whole team. If one unhappy face makes four others unhappy, that’s weakness, not strength.
Champions don’t move in friendships, groups or cliques they move as one squad.
Rea Dlala Sports- Together We Rise, Together We Shine 💚
Dear Development Coaches, have you come across this type of players who arrive as a group to join the team. They're all friends and each and every team they play for, they always arrive in a group of 2,3 or even 4. When the team play, they want to all be in a line up. They have the tendency of only passing each other the ball when they're playing and don't pass other players the ball. Once one of them becomes unhappy, all of them will be unhappy. At training they all travel together, if one of them doesn't come to training then all of them won't come.
At school they chill together, they do almost everything together as a group. Once you show them that one of them is not your favorite, others will also start lacking focus and dedication to the team.
When they decide to leave the team, they all leave and sometimes they also recruit other players to leave with them.
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